From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Oct 16 13:11:23 1999
Subject: dup2() on stdout [or using disp() on another file stream]
From: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
To: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:11:14 +0100


Hi,

How can I use 'disp' on a file stream other than 'stdout'?

'disp' is an easy and nice way to print matrices, without the need to
create a format string to use on 'fprintf'. I would like to:

     f_name = tmpnam
     fout = fopen(f_name,"w");
     disp(fout, rand(3))        <--- not supporred
     fclose(fout)

When I tried to use:

    f_name = tmpnam
    fout = fopen(f_name,"w");
    old = fopen("old","w");

    dup2(stdout, old); # save old stdout on 'old'?
    dup2(fout, stdout); # use new stdout

    disp(rand(3))

    dup2(old, stdout);  #revert to saved stdout?

I wasn't able to revert stdout to the original stdout. what is wrong? I
can't 'fclose(stdout)', either.

Thanks,
Joao

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